Category: Forex

Acquisition
December 20, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

OFX Group acquires Canadian FX company Firma in $69.6 million deal

The acquisition have a significant positive impact on the volumes in the trading of USD/CAD and USD/GBP pairs. OFX Chief Executive Officer and Managing Direator, Skander Malcolm said: This is our first major acquisition and very much aligned with our strategy of building scale in the Corporate segment and growing the North American region. Firma…

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Deutsche Börse
December 16, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Deutsche Börse acquires majority stake in Crypto Finance

Crypto Finance will now be able to access to Deutsche Börse’s client and infrastructure and its capital base to further grow its team, carry out structural growth plans, and broaden its product and service portfolio. The expansion of the customer base will be focused on Germany in Europe, and Singapore in Asia. Eric Leupold, Head…

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SEC Chairman states plans to tackle ‘gamification’
December 16, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

SEC proposes changes to strengthen the laws against insider trading

Additionally, directors and officers will be required to put in writing that they are not aware of any important nonpublic information when they enter into the plans. The proposal also includes updates that would require more comprehensive disclosure about issuers’ policies and procedures against insider trading, as well as their actions around the timing of…

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Erik Thedéen
December 16, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ESMA names Erik Thedéen Vice Chair

Verena Ross, Chair, said: I am happy to announce the appointment of Erik Thedéen as Vice Chair of ESMA. As a Board Member since January 2018, he has demonstrated his commitment to ESMA through his active participation in our supervisory work. He brings a wealth of national and international experience to the role, and I…

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Appital
December 15, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Appital onboards asset managers ahead of platform launch

Through the new Appital platform, buy-side firms can obtain more exposure to deal flow opportunities, portfolio managers and heads of trading build can gain a comprehensive picture of liquidity, including highly illiquid, small and mid-cap stocks. Rebecca Healey of Redlap Consulting noted in The Trade, discussing her recent report “Liquidity in the Time of Covid”:…

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TP ICAP
December 15, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

TP ICAP investigates security vulnerability Log4Shell

TP ICAP highlight that there is no evidence that this has happened. Since finding out, the company has been evaluating its exposure and methodically fixing as patches have become available. Additionally, the company has been deploying signatures and enhanced security controls to further strengthen the protection on its environment from the Log4j exploit. The official…

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Acquisition
December 14, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ZuluTrade acquired by Finvasia

Greece-headquartered social trading platform ZuluTrade has leveraged the potential of the trading community and algorithmic performance ranking in order to connect traders with investors. This acquisition fits well with Finvasia group’s multi-phase strategy in building an integrated fintech ecosystem for investors. Sarvjeet Singh Virk, Co-founder & Chief Managing Director , Finvasia Group, said: Since Finvasia…

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December 14, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

B2Broker expands European reach with CySEC regulated B2Prime

B2Broker Group of Companies CEO, Arthur Azizov, commented: We are delighted that B2Prime has secured CySEC approval. The licence gives us the scope to provide institutional grade liquidity to clients in over 30 countries. Meanwhile, our clients will be able to benefit from an enhanced level of protection, safe in the knowledge that they have…

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December 14, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Weekly data: inflation and major central banks ahead

The current channel is narrow with $1,770 and $1,800 remaining in view as likely boundaries. The bias for gold based on fundamentals seems to be towards buying unless the Fed is very hawkish on Wednesday, but TA remains noncommittal. All three moving averages are above the price and momentum upon emergence from oversold (based on…

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